Nina Boyko
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The Honourable Nina Boyko MP | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| 16th Prime Minister of Wealden | |
| Assumed office 21 February 2021 | |
| President | Mykhailo Marchenko |
| Deputy | Arseniy Antonov |
| Preceded by | Andrii Vasylyk |
| Leader of the Worker's Labour Party | |
| In office 21 February 2021 – 24 March 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Andrii Vasylyk |
| Succeeded by | Arseniy Antonov |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 22 July 2020 – 21 February 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Andrii Vasylyk |
| Preceded by | Aleks Marchenko |
| Succeeded by | Viktor Gavrilyuk |
| Member of Wealdenite Parliament | |
| Assumed office 19 July 2008 | |
| Constituency | Pivdenny |
| Majority | 14,874 (2020) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nina Melaniya Holub September 15, 1983 Brahma, Wealden |
| Political party | Worker's Labour |
| Spouse | Ivan Boyko (m. 2007) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Brahma |
Nina Melaniya Boyko (née Holub; born 15 September 1983) is a Wealdenite politician who served as the sixteenth Prime Minister of Wealden and Leader of the Worker's Labour Party (WLP) from 2021 until her resignation in 2024. Prior to her premiership, Boyko held the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Andrii Vasylyk from 2020 to 2021. She has represented the constituency of Pivdenny in Korlandi as a member of parliament since 2008, becoming the youngest woman elected to parliament in Wealdenite history at the age of 24. Boyko ascended to the role of Prime Minister following Vasylyk's sudden death on 9 January 2021.
Born in Brahma to Staynish-Wealdenite parents who immigrated from Aurora to Cereneria in the 1970s, Boyko was educated at South Zoryane College. She studied philosophy and politics at university in Great Morstaybishlia and earned an honorary scholarship in political science from the University of Zoryane in 2017. After completing her education, Boyko returned to Wealden and joined the Worker's Labour Party, winning the Pivdenny by-election in 2008 and taking the seat from the Moderates. She identifies politically as a democratic socialist.
Boyko became Prime Minister after winning the 2021 WLP leadership election. During her tenure, she sought to continue the mandate of her predecessor, Vasylyk. However, she faced persistent calls to hold a general election amid accusations of ruling without a democratic mandate. Her strong left-wing positions, particularly on economic issues, led to significant unpopularity among the public. Despite this, she survived a vote of no confidence in October 2022, bolstered by her party's 80-seat majority achieved in Vasylyk's 2020 victory.
In 2022, a faction of the WLP broke away to form the Social Democratic Party (SDP), led by Timur Petrenko, resulting in a political scandal and the loss of 27 seats from the WLP's majority. Boyko is notable for being one of the few Wealdenite leaders not to face a general election during her tenure. She announced her intention to resign in March 2024, ahead of the general election later that year, with her formal resignation as party leader set for 24 March 2024. Despite stepping down as leader, she planned to continue her duties as Prime Minister until the election.
Early life
Nina Melaniya Holub was born on 15 September 1983 in Brahma, Wealden, approximately 20 miles from the nation's capital of Zoryane. She was daughter to a Morstaybishlian philosophy teacher, Roseann Trigarta (born 1958) and an industrial technician, Oleksiy Holub (1958 - 2011). Both of her parents lived in Great Morstaybishlia before moving to Wealden. She has two older brothers; one of them, Valentyn Holub (born 1979) is a popular and well-renowned journalist for the popular Wealdenite newspaper, The Sunday Herald (Wealdenite: Sandi Gerald). For the first nine years of her life, her family lived in Partrenki, Wealden. Her parents were members of the now-defunct Socialist Party of Wealden, and they were peace campaigners who met at a conference as teenagers in the 1970s.
When Boyko was nine, her family moved deeper into the central heart of Zoryane. Boyko attended Zoryana Tsentralna Srednya School (Zoryane Central High School), a state-owned comprehensive school before moving to Serhiy Grammar when she was thirteen, and then to South Zoryane College when she was fourteen.
Early career and political activities
Boyko joined the Equality and Freedom Party upon her return from Great Morstaybishlia in 2005 upon graduating from university. Before running as an MP, Boyko worked full-time as a member of bar staff at a local bar in Shefiya, while becoming a rampant campaigner and lobbyist for the EFP. In 2006, she was elected as the chair of the Young EFP Movement during their conference in Zoryane. In January 2007, she moved 60 miles east to Pivdenny, where she met Ivan Boyko (born 1979) whom she would marry that following October. Following the death of the Moderate MP, Nazar Tkachuk, in 2008, Boyko ran in the 2008 Pivdenny by-election. Her charisma, youthful charm, and sense of humour made her popular with the local community, and she won the by election with a majority of 762, a number which has grown larger and larger ever since.